Word: wrongs
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...opinion there isn't very much that's wrong with the British economy. Or rather, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that there's plenty that's right with it ... Everyone who wants a job has a job and that's a great improvement on some past periods . . . There's rarely been a time when there was so little real poverty in the country as today...
...Britain, Norway, Sweden and Finland, whenever I have asked Socialist leaders about further nationalization, the reaction has usually been strangely identical: a slightly sheepish smile, an embarrassed shrug, some evasive words amounting to this: 'Don't get us wrong, we're still Socialists, mind you, but you see this isn't quite the time...
...more than a fortnight neither side gave an inch. The break came last week just as Hume Wrong, Canada's ambassador to the U.S., was getting ready to take the problem to Secretary of State Dean Acheson. The U.S. State Department asked Wrong to delay his visit for one day, and submitted informally a surprising new set of U.S. terms. The request for a blank check for military aid was dropped. The demand for cash in advance was changed; Canada could use letters of credit. The third stipulation-that Canada export no U.S.-made arms without permission-was watered...
...Sanders believes that Freud was most vulnerable-and most mistaken-in his dogged atheism. Religion, according to the -late father of psychoanalysis, was "the universal obsessional neurosis"; the Jewish-Christian concept of God was merely a projection of the child's relationship to his father. Assuming Freud was wrong in this one respect, what, asks Sanders, is left of the Christian faith? His answer: everything...
...about the church as they would a doctor-only to be used in times of distress. Immediately after the war, in those grim days of defeat, the churches were full. Many of us, witnessing this, held high hopes of a rebirth ... of Christianity in Germany. But alas, we were wrong." But Pastor Baden is still hopeful: "The road to God is a long one, but even the most modest approach to God is a beginning...